Tom has already blogged about it, and
so has Louis.
But for me, it wasn't real until Friday night when UPS showed up and
delivered my copies. I have to say, seeing my name on the cover
of a book for the first time was a great feeling. I put a lot of
work into my chapters, and I'm happy with the outcome. I think
the entire book came out quite well.
I wrote chapters 4, 5, and 6: "T-SQL for DBAs", ".NET Integration",
and "Programming Assemblies". Chapter 4 includes material on topics
like online indexing, partitioning, SNAPSHOT isolation (still my
favorite SQL Server 2005 feature), etc. Chapters 5 and 6 are dedicated
to CLR integration, as you can probably tell by their titles. Chapter
5 is basically an in-depth look at ADO.NET integration and writing a
CLR stored procedure. Chapter 6 delves into UDTs, UDFs, and UDAs, and
triggers.
So please
check it out if you're looking for a SQL Server 2005 book! And of course, send me any comments on the material I wrote!